Word: teetering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Room of the Winds. Others are quite straightforward, like those in the chamber in which Federico had Giulio and his assistants paint life-size effigies of his favorite horses, with their names written underneath them. In between there is an amazing variety of images, some of which seem to teeter between grandeur and farce in a way unheard of in Renaissance art before...
Lest we forget, Bush and the Republican Party still refuse to accept their complicity in the creation our nation's current educational crisis. Eight years of conservative attacks on education spending have weakened America's social structure to the point where many school systems teeter on the brink of collapse...
...This may explain why terrorists threatening to retaliate against the U.S. on the third anniversary of the American bombing of Libya were rumored to have chosen Atlantic City as their target.) Along the Boardwalk stands a rank of casinos nudged so close against the water that they seem to teeter at its edge, their windows shut to the ocean air, their backs turned to the city. Behind them cowers the neighborhood known as the Inlet, where boxy row houses devolve into strange confections of brick, plywood and cardboard, and people doze on sleeping bags in doorless rooms with broken windows...
...political reason," he told TIME in an unprompted aside. "That's not why I proposed a constitutional amendment. And now I'm reading that people aren't interested in that ((issue)) anymore. Well, my ((internal)) clock tells me that's wrong, and I don't need ((Republican pollster)) Bob Teeter to show me a poll to make me convinced it's wrong." Although Bush insists that he does not steer his policies by the polls, he loves to use survey data to silence skeptics. After he permanently banned imported assault weapons, for example, he privately brandished poll results showing support...
...fact, the Bush campaign made a similar determination last year when Robert Teeter explored the possibility of Bush's claiming Maine as his residence to run with Baker in 1988. Both Bush and Baker were reportedly intrigued, but the too-cute reasoning prevailed. And Bush has told TIME he won't change residences now that he is in the White House...